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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Military power"”.
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Armed forces, states and threats : civil-military institutions and military power in modern democracies
… questions preoccupying political scientists, military officers and policymakers alike are how should and how do political leaders interact with military professionals? This thesis argues that historic patterns of civil-military relations underlay distinct national defense policymaking …
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Post-9/11 US civil-military relations and control of military strategy during Operation Iraqi Freedom
Current understanding of the post-9/11 US civil-military power relationship is clouded by the existence of various competing propositions as to whether civilian policymakers, military leaders or a combination of both have had the greatest influence in determining military strategy in Iraq. …
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Russia's Nuclear Doctrine For the Post-Cold War Era
… that Russia will once again become a great power and that the twenty-first century will be the "Russian Century." To fulfill its goal of regaining a superpower status in the world, Russia understands that it must continue to construct and maintain a military force that is unrivaled in …
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Images as Defense Policy Determinants in the Soviet-American Military Relationship Since 1945
… comparing the structure of Soviet and American military thought in the context of their respective strategic cultures. While ethnocentrism is reflected in both systems, its impact is different in the two strategic cultures. The intellectual construct created by Soviet military thought is …
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Foreign policy between the Russian Federation and European Union in the 21st century
… of a security structure, while Russia is a military power without an economic base. The crime, corruption, and slowly developing democracy in Russia are of supreme security concern for the EU, because they create instability and uncertainty in the region.
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Questioning the efficacy of violence to achieve security : the 1991 Gulf War
… in this case for three main areas: territory, military power and non-military power. It finds that Iraq's use of violence was mostly counter-productive, leading to further losses rather than gains. The use of violence on the Coalition side brought the Coalition some benefits, but these benefits …
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A Springboard to Victory: Shandong Province and Chinese Communist Military and Financial Strength, 1937-1945
… controlled inflation to increase its financial power. The key to this achievement was the CCP’s success in establishing exclusive zones for its banknotes in August 1943. The exclusive use of CCP currency developed in the course of many years of armed conflict among Japanese, CCP and Nationalist …
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Nuclear Forces and the Geopolitical Objectives of the People's Republic of China
… instruments for the enhancement of Chinese power, especially in relation to the United States. Geopolitical objectives mesh with Chinese political and strategic culture to encourage China's quest for hegemony in the region. Chinese nuclear doctrine is designed to support expansion of China's …
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Theoretical explanations for the Minsk II: Power, preferences, and interactions examined
… and constructivism. I utilized the concepts of military power, preferences of the leaders signing, and time and type of meetings to try and determine why the leaders of Ukraine, Russia, Germany, France, and the separatists in Eastern Ukraine, signed the agreement but did not implement it. I …
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"In that New World which is the Old": New World/Old World inversion in Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World"
… 1930s, namely, the United States' rise as a military, political, and cultural superpower following World War I and Great Britain's concurrent early imperial dissolution and declining political power. Specifically, I argue that the New World/Old World inversion of Brave New World stands as …
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France— Military Causes of Collapse in The West, 1940
… French Republic in June 1940. Never has a great military power been smashed as quickly and as inexorably since the lightning war of Napoleon against Prussia in 1806. In less than six weeks one of the powers leading the world was literally swept away from the international scene." | Popular …
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Iran: an Emerging Military Threat to U.S. National Interests in the Middle East
… on reestablishing itself as a major regional military power. To reach this goal, the current government of Iran has embarked on a massive program of remilitarization that includes a major buildup of the country's conventional forces and efforts both to build and to purchase unconventional …
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Mobilising people in the Viet bac : posters, folk poetry and pamphlets in the war against French colonialism
… were available to them. France was an industrial power with comparatively vast wealth and military power yet they were fought to a standstill at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. This thesis examines some of the methods used by the Viet Minh to marshal their resources, which comprised the people of Vietnam, …
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Mobilising people in the Viet bac : posters, folk poetry and pamphlets in the war against French colonialism
… were available to them. France was an industrial power with comparatively vast wealth and military power yet they were fought to a standstill at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. This thesis examines some of the methods used by the Viet Minh to marshal their resources, which comprised the people of Vietnam, …
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Ritual, Myth, And Symbol In The Field Of Nuclear Posturing
… historical situations, national wealth, military power, or even the actual possession of nuclear weapons. Rationalist arguments that depict nuclear posturing as a means of deterrence appear insufficient given its tendency to unbalance perceptions of equilibrium, and the public nature in …
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Turkey as growing regional power. Strengths and limitations
… of Turkey on its way to becoming a regional power in the Middle East. Using the major theories of International Relations (Realism and Liberalism), the study presents the definition and main criteria of the term of regional power. The key purpose of this study is to examine if today's Turkey …
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The Body Politic: Imperial Masculinity, the Great War, and the Struggle for the Indian Self, 1914--1918
… in the colonial government, but also its military power. Indeed, the raj ruled by way of an ""elegant symmetry"" which represented the subcontinent's intelligentsia as ""feminized,"" and thus unsuited to grasp the reins of power. Similarly, the so-called ""martial races,"" which made up …
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Churchill-Roosevelt relationship and the planning of the war, 1940-1943
… after the United States became the dominant military power of the war. At Teheran, Churchill met for the first time with their third major ally, Joseph Stalin. From this time on, Roosevelt was clearly the dominant leader of the allies. The relationship of Roosevelt and Churchill is an …
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US foreign policy and energy resources during the George W. Bush administration
… vital goods and raw materials, and establishing military presence in areas of interest, as America’s corporate and strategic interests worked together in harmony. This approach has been especially evident in energy-producing regions, where the US seeks to establish economic and military dominance …
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The Origins and Development of the Indian Removal Policy
… to the War of 1812, it was not until Indian military power east of the Mississippi was broken in that conflict, that removal came to be seen as the final solution to the Indian "problem" in the 1820's. James Monroe, John C. Calhoun and other federal leaders actually defined the policy which …
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